Horizon City PD continues to use Flock cameras amid backlash
The short version: As Texas and El Paso cut ties with Flock, Horizon City PD digs in — a reminder that local rollback fights happen department by department.
Our Take
KTSM 9 News lays out a telling split-screen: the State of Texas and the City of El Paso are walking away from Flock Safety, while Horizon City PD is holding the line and keeping its cameras running. That's not a contradiction, it's how ALPR surveillance actually gets rolled back — or entrenched. There's no statewide switch to flip. Every department signed its own contract, and every department has to be pushed separately to end it.
Horizon City's insistence that it's sticking with Flock "amid backlash" is worth sitting with. Backlash from residents apparently isn't enough on its own to move a police department that's already bought into the vendor relationship — the cameras, the data-sharing agreements, the sunk cost of the pitch about stolen cars and Amber Alerts. Meanwhile bigger, higher-profile partners are the ones bailing, which suggests the pressure that works is public, political, and sustained, not just a news segment and some angry comments.
Credit to KTSM for tracking this instead of treating Flock as a monolith story. If you're in a town where the local PD is following Horizon City's playbook instead of El Paso's, check whether your area is already wired up on our camera map, and use our take-action resources to push your own council or sheriff toward the exit Texas just took.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of KTSM 9 NEWS, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.